Residents help pay upkeep of Ft. Thomas streets

12:10 PM,
Feb. 24, 2014

Rande Hughes brushes snow off the driveway of his Clover Ridge Avenue home next to the new road surface the City of Fort Thomas constructed in 2013. Hughes, like all other home owners on the street, will be billed his property's share of 40 percent of the cost of the project. The city will pay the remaining 60 percent of the cost of paving the street.

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When the city paves a street, property owners receive a bill in the mail for a share of the cost.

Clover Ridge Avenue resident Rande Hughes said he doesn't mind paying to keep the city nice, but this will be the third time in 31 years he has been assessed to pay for part of the cost of paving the same street.

Hughes said city taxes are reasonable, and provide a good return, but he is not looking forward to an extra bill to pay for street paving. ...